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H us- sein considered Glubb an old family re- tainer, and must have looked forward to his arrival as the British garrison in Tobruk looked forward to the Eighth Army's. "I took the Amir out for the after- noon," the Pasha records "We went to the Battersea Festival Gardens, but he was not amused. He did not want to go on the merry-go-rounds or the scenic railway I must have misunderstood hIs age group, or his early introductIon to public affairs in such tragic circum- stances had soured him prematurely. On the return journey we paid a visit to Fortnum & Mason." There he bought the Prince sweets to take back to school. Glubb was governed by memories of his own Cheltenham College boyhood; the English are a slow-maturing lot. He knew that Jordanians, including direct descendants of the Prophet, like Hus- sein, are the exact opposite, but he may have thought that the climate, or Har- row, had made a difference. The Amir would doubtless have preferred to be sprung in the evening. 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